Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country [Hardcover]

Carl A. Brasseaux (Author), Keith P. Fontenot (Author), Claude F. Oubre (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1994

Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of south-western Louisiana. Yet in both antebellum and postbellum periods they remained a people considered apart from the rest of the population. Historians, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists have given them only scant attention.

This probing book, focused on the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, is the first to scrutinize this multiracial group through a close study of primary resource materials.

During the antebellum period they were excluded from the state's three-tiered society--white, free people of color, and slaves. Yet Creoles of Color were a dynamic component in the region's economy, for they were self-compelled in efforts to become and integral part of the community.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Creole families of color are among the first of southwest Louisiana, yet in popular social circles they've remained apart from the general population. This scholarly probe of Creole roots and history is the first to consider this multiracial group's history and culture. -- Midwest Book Review

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The first serious historical examination of a distinctive multiracial society of Louisiana --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 174 pages
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt); First edition (December 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878057145
• ISBN-13: 978-0878057146
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,158,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "My story, not His-story.", November 1, 2001

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This review is from: Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country (Paperback)

Creoles of color in the bayou country, by Karl Brasseaux, is a very informative piece of documented history. I am bias for this book because it hits closer to home, making reference to my grand father generations ago. I have always known a rich but loosely knitted and sometimes confusing history of my family. Karl have given me the tools to dig much deeper into my ancestry. Now I can piece together better my past. Merci vraiment Monsier Brasseaux de me presenter a mon grand pere, Zenon Rideau. Those who call creoles the lost people, are obviously lost themselves.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review from a Guillory descendant, April 29, 2010

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Demetrice A. De Ville "voracious reader" (Garden of Eden, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country (Paperback)

This book was an excellent resource in my genealogy studies. In tracing the roots of our large family tree, I found myself landing on the same names in many branches. The names and relationships of the Guillory, Rideau, and Semien families recorded in this book helped me find missing branches. I had the pleasure of meeting one of the authors, Mr. Keith Fontenot, while on a research trip in Opelousas. He was a wealth of information in the ancestry of the FPC in Louisiana, the pronounciation of French names, and the history of the Creoles of Color.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Louisiana Bayou Black Settlers, March 20, 2007

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frank j boudreaux "Frank B" (laguna beach, ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country (Paperback)

Loved reading about my people and ancestors. Great research and insight on the People of Color in the Bayou Country